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Bank note flap irks Asian community Markhamites not impressed by Bank of Canada’s moves on $100 bill that featured Asian-looking woman By Amanda Persico
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You often hear the jest that Canada stole its bank notes from a Monopoly game. Or at least we modeled ours
after the board game with different colours for different denominations. While one might argue paper currency is supposed to be a representation of the Canadian people, the story this week has been what
didn’t make the image cut. It was reported a new Canadian $100 bill originally featured the image of an Asian woman looking through a microscope on a bill designed to recognize Canadian medical achievements.
After focus groups objected, the Bank of Canada replaced the image with a more Caucasian-looking female. That has some in Markham See APOLOGY, page 9.
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For close to a century, veterans from across the nation were honoured at the annual Warriors’ Parade at the Canadian National Exhibition. And this year, Markham’s Don Rattle was one such warrior — one of the remaining few. The 87-year-old Second World War vet cruised in style, riding in a 1939 Chevrolet from Markham to the historic Princes’ Gates, where he was paraded through the Exhibition. While crowds waved and cheered as Mr. Rattle and others paraded, something was missing. “I expected to see a lot of veterans,” he said. “We’re a dying breed, I guess.”
Repaired bombers Mr. Rattle served during the Second World War as part of the ground crew in the 4th Bomber Command with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Mr. Rattle enlisted after graduating high school when he was just 18. He was discharged in 1945 to return home to Scarborough. He later worked construction and as a building inspector for Markham for more than 30 years. “It was the thing to do,” he said of his decision to enlist in the airforce. “Everyone your age was doing it. I was one of the crowd who went to sign up. Back then, See DIDN’T, page 5.
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‘Didn’t know what military really was’ From page 1.
you didn’t know what the military really was.” From there, he was sent off for training, then sent to work in northern England. Mr. Rattle was responsible for repairing or rebuilding Avro Lancasters that returned after a bombing raid. “You couldn’t really call us mechanics,” said the grandfather of five and great-grandfather of three. “We didn’t fix things in so much that we replaced things with new parts. You couldn’t repair those planes.” The planes that returned were filled with bullet holes. Earlier this year, Mr. Rattle was presented with a volunteer service award for his 20 years of volunteering with the Markham
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EDITORIAL
Bill controversy overblown
The fact that focus groups thought a design for a new $100 bill contained an image of a woman who looked Asian and that image was changed as a result should not lead people to jump to the conclusion the Bank of Canada or Canadians in general are racist. On the contrary, the bank was trying to prevent people from being offended or, in this case, feeling excluded by images it uses, which is why focus groups were used. Unfortunately, the bank’s fallback position was to make the image appear neutral, which really meant Caucasian, meaning one ethnic group was featured on our bills above all others after all. Some have questioned why what the focus groups had to say was printed in the media — although the widespread reaction seems to suggest it was simply good reporting and that having a discussion on topics such as this helps Canada grow into a more mature place. Keep in mind, focus group members were worried the image was stereotyping people of Asian descent (in this case as being good in the sciences — the woman was standing in front of a microscope)
or excluding other groups, since unfortunately, images of people from minority ethnic groups are not featured on our money. Perhaps this is the lesson we can take from this case — that rather than images of the Queen or prime ministers long forgotten (the $100 bill features a moustachioed image of prime minister Robert Borden, who introduced income taxes as a temporary measure), we should either be adding ethnic diversity to our bills or subtracting some of the uniformly white faces featured and stick to wildlife, industry, sport and historic buildings. Unlike Maclean’s magazine and its controversial “Too Asian?” article in 2010 that garnered a strong negative reaction from Markham politicians, the Bank of Canada has offered a qualified apology, saying the bank didn’t live up to its usual standards in handling what could have become a PR nightmare. We should accept that apology and keep in mind the spirit of what the bank was trying to do through focus groups, which is to avoid offending the public in the first place and design currency acceptable to all Canadians.
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t’s not a Cinderella story. The Liberal government announced this week it would be “uploading more expenses” from our overburdened municipalities, “helping to reduce costs for municipalities and local families”. It’s not an invitation to the ball for our municipalities. The province has decided it will start picking up the tab for court security and prisoner transportation costs this year, phasing in the relief over seven years, for more than 100 municipalities. In York Region — where our $1-billion debt is the highest in the GTA — there is a regional courthouse, so we’ve been carrying this cost for cases outside of our own borders. Not to be rude in the face of this generosity, but let’s be clear, these are costs that are rightly the responsibility of the province. And they were until they were tossed into the laps of the municipalities in 1990 by the Bob Rae NDP government. Cinderella had no choice but to take out the trash on this one. According to the province, these security costs have been costing the
Debora Kelly municipalities as much as $125 million a year. This move is part of the Liberal government’s pledge to reverse the trend that has seen previous provincial governments give tax breaks and cut budgets on the backs of municipal taxpayers. The Mike Harris Conservative government — in this analogy, the ugliest stepsister — off-loaded costs of about $3 billion decades ago, including most social services, while maintaining it would be “revenue neutral” (uh-huh, as the McGuinty government did with the HST) by taking on the cost of other
services. That golden carriage proved to be a pumpkin long before the clock struck midnight. The McGuinty government — the Fairy Godmother in this story — began setting the balance straight in 2003 by phasing in relief of the $1.2 billion in social pooling costs the municipalities had been paying since the Harris days, chipping in for critical infrastructure projects tallying $60 million over three years, sharing the cost of building affordable housing to the tune of $2.5 billion and opening up the gas tax treasure chest for transit-related initiatives. But there’s a long way to go. Our Cinderella municipalities are still waiting for an invitation to the ball, as they face a bleak future of limited tax revenue, aging infrastructure costs amounting to $6 billion, growing debt and an increasing mandate for services. And, sadly, the trend of downloading continues unabated at the federal level, as the debt-plagued Stephen Harper government looks to turn its rats into coachmen by downloading costs that have included affordable housing, immigration settlement and
integration and policing and crime prevention. In a speech to municipal leaders at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities last June, Now-Liberal Leader Rae called on the federal government to end its “cap in hand” relationship with municipalities and, instead, provide them with long-term, stable funding. Our municipalities — the source of economic growth — are the most underfunded among developed countries, he said, receiving only 8 cents of every tax dollar collected. So, our municipalities have yet to find their prince. That prince would give them not only their missing glass slipper, but funding on which they can rely and a source of revenue other than property taxes. At the end of the story are us taxpayers, who watch this shell game of shifting responsibilities between levels of government knowing full well the money to play comes from one pocket. “Local families” are provincial families are federal families. Uploading or downloading, the bill we pay remains the same or, most often, increases. Not everyone lives happily ever after in this story.
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KENNY WAN: President of Richmond Hill Markham Chinese Business Association says bank’s actions don’t show its open-mindedness. case Canadian medical and research achievements without using people, he said. A problem arises if one of the reasons for the change was the high value of the currency. “If the Asian-looking woman wasn’t good enough because $100 is so high in value, that’s not good,” Dr. Ng said. “That’s a problem of prejudice and (moral) values.” The $100 bank note celebrates Canadian medical innovation. Early stages of note designs were presented to focus groups for comment. Earlier this week, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney apologized for the bank’s handling of the issue and promised a review of bank note design processes. While Mr. Carney’s apology was accepted by community leaders, some still expressed their disappointment. “The controversy shouldn’t have happened in the first place,” Mr. Lee said. “The apology was not necessary. If anything, (Mr. Carney’s) apology gives credibility to what began as a trivial issue.” Join the conversation. Follow @AmandaPersico on Twitter.
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accusing the government of white-washing. “Canada is a multicultural society. We have many different people from different ethnic backgrounds working in all sorts of fields,” said Markham resident and Carleton University student Wilson Lee. “Our currency should be able to express that. Besides, what’s ‘ethnically neutral’ anyway? White?” The image switch had many in the Markham business community voices their concerns as well. The act of replacing one image with a more neutral image is very disappointing, president of the Richmond Hill Markham Chinese Business Association Kenny Wan said. “This is supposed to represent Canada,” he said. But the whole process of removing the Asian-looking female doesn’t. “That is not being open minded.” Not only is that an affront to the more than three million Asian-Canadians, it has also made the Bank of Canada the target of scorn. “This is bad for Canada,” Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs in Markham general manager Karen Ng said. “This looks bad for businesses. Asians are not the only ethnic group. (Bank notes) should show all of them.” Rather than put images of people on bank notes – which could always cause strife – one solution to the $100 bill debacle was not to include people to begin with. “It should have been a more neutral choice to begin with,” Federation of Chinese Canadians in Markham president Dr. Ken Ng said. There is a way to show-
Note featuring woman looking through microscope has resulted in controversy after image was changed when focus groups said the woman looked Asian.
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Apology accepted, but community still concerned
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Service adjustments come to 70 YRT, Viva routes next month More than 70 YRT and Viva routes will have some service adjustments starting Sept. 2. The changes include: • Route 50 Queensway will be expanded to operate all day between Sutton and Newmarket, with limited trips to and from Pefferlaw. Customers from Beaverton can use GO Transit services to connect with Route 50 in Pefferlaw. Travel between Keswick and Newmarket will require a two-zone fare; • High School Specials will be reinstated for back-to-school travel; • Viva purple and orange will offer improved service frequency. Additional Viva
purple service to York University will be reinstated for the school year. • Route 22/22A King City will offer improved service frequency, offering another back-to-school option for travel to York University. • Route 91/91A Bayview service will be moved to platform three at the Finch GO bus terminal to better serve customers. Sunday/holiday service will be in effect for all YRT/Viva and TTC routes operating in York Region for Labour Day. For more information, visit yrt.ca
More trips, more options GO is adding more trips and making some service adjustments across its network to serve you better and make your travel experience more comfortable, starting September 1 NEW GO TRAIN SERVICES: • 71 – Stouffville GO Train & Bus • New weekday 3:18 p.m. northbound train trip from Union Station making all stops to Unionville GO Station
• The 7:07 a.m. and 7:42 a.m. southbound train trips from Lincolnville will now have 12 coaches instead of the current 10, offering a more comfortable ride and more seats
CHANGING GO BUS SERVICES: • 54 – Markham/York University GO Bus FOR MORE INFO, VISIT GOTRANSIT.COM 416 869 3200 1 888 GET ON GO (438 6646) TTY 1 800 387 3652 Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez visiter le site gotransit.com ou composer un des numéros ci-dessus.
Markham is officially bicycle friendly. At the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario, the city, along with Burlington and Kingston, was awarded bronze status by Bicycle Friendly Communities, a program of the Share the Road Cycling Coalition, a nonprofit provincial organization that promotes cycling as a mode of transportation. Aurora was also given an honourable mention. Currently, the city is completing its network of about 400 kilometres of on- and offroad bicycle routes, which includes on-road signed routes, designated bike lanes and off-road multi-use trails. A little less than a third of Ontarians now live in a bicycle-friendly community, where about 28 per cent cycle at least once a month, of which 16 per cent ride daily or weekly, Share the Road chief executive officer Eleanor McMahon said. “Even in challenging economic times, municipalities are choosing to invest in bicycling as a way to build places where people
want to live, work and visit,” she said. There are still many challenges in tipping the drive-cycle pendulum. Many municipalities are struggling to retrofit for cycling older infrastructure, built to accommodate cars. There is also a need for a formal cycling education program at the local level, such as establishing a cycling education system modeled after the swimming lesson program, Ms McMahon said. “The No. 1 reason Ontarians don’t ride is because they feel unsafe,” she said. “We need to empower them to feel safer.” Silver status municipalities include Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto and Waterloo. Other bronze municipalities include Ajax, Blue Mountain, Guelph, London, Mississauga, Oakville, Oshawa, Peterborough, Richmond Hill, Welland and Windsor. The Bicycle Friendly communities program, launched in Canada in 2010, provides incentives for communities that actively support cycling. For more, visit sharetheroad.ca
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City earns bike-friendly bronze
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Funds available for non-profit projects York Region’s community investment funding program has $3.8 million for eligible projects in 2013. The call for proposals is open to projects that fall under one of three streams: community-based services (80 per cent of the $3.8 million), organizational development (15 per cent) and innovation and collaboration (5 per cent). Projects should address one or more of the funding areas and identified service gaps, including employment supports, family and children’s strengthening programs and services, homelessness programs and prevention and public health initiatives. Non-profit community service agencies interested in submitting a proposal should attend an upcoming information session. Pre-registration is not required.
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Village Voices of Markham invites choristers to participate in an open rehearsal Sept. 5 to read through John Rutter’s Gloria and excerpts from Handel’s Messiah. The choir will be performing Gloria at their Christmas concert Dec. 1 and the complete Messiah with the Kindred Spirits Orchestra Dec. 15, at The Flato Markham Theatre. All voices are welcome, particularly tenor and bass. The rehearsal is at 7:30 p.m. at Unionville Presbyterian Church. For details, e-mail info@villagevoices.ca or call 905-472-6435.
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Voices sought for open rehearsal
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Angels in Disguse ... Charity Fundraiser Masquerade Sunday, October 28, 2012 • 5:30 to 11:00pm All proceeds raised will be donated to support Angel Hair for Kids
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United Way sets course for new record
United Way York Region aims to set a new fundraising record in this year’s campaign. Forty teams gathered around the stage at the annual Toromont CAT Dragon Boat Festival at Seneca College’s King Campus Saturday as United Way CEO Daniele Zanotti announced the organization’s $8.26-million fundraising goal, accompanied by tambourines and vuvuzelas. The crowd cheered, anticipating the start of the festival that pushes York Region’s business community to cross the finish line in support of the organization. The annual event has kicked off the United Way’s fundraising campaign for close to a decade. Last year’s campaign raised $8.18 million. “With an economy still so fragile and more
people knocking on the door of a United Way-funded agency for help — many for the very first time — we know we must continue to do more,” United Way chairperson Helen Murray said. Last year, 10,000 youths stayed clean and in school with United Way-funded mental health and addiction support, counselling and education programs, Mr. Zanotti said. He told the dragon boaters they kicked off a campaign that helped 5,000 people find jobs, affordable housing and healthy food and 46,000 people receive help close to home and crisis counselling during family transitions. United Way York Region serves all nine municipalities by supporting agencies that meet urgent needs. — Teresa Latchford
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Learn to reach Catholic board, teachers reach deal your goals. By KIM ZARZOUR
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Continuing Education at Centennial College has more than 140 programs and over 1,300 courses to help you achieve your career – and life – objectives. Our courses are offered in-class, online, evenings and weekends, to meet your schedule and support your lifelong learning goals. To learn more about our diverse offerings, please join us for our annual Open House and FREE BBQ on Monday, August 27 from 6-8 pm, Progress Campus. For more information, please visit centennialcollege.ca/ce See where experience takes you.
York Catholic school board trustees have signed on with the province’s deal reached with its teachers’ union. It’s the second Ontario board to buy in to the controversial wage freeze agreement hashed out by the Liberal government and Ontario’s Catholic teachers. Trustees passed a motion Tuesday on an intention to sign the memorandum of understanding reached between the Education Ministry and the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association, the board announced yesterday. Toronto’s Catholic board was the first to reach an agreement. However, about a dozen other Catholic boards, mainly in the southwest portion of the province, have reached an impasse and filed for conciliation, union spokesperson Michelle Despault said. The York agreement is a result of a good relationship between the board and its employees, York Catholic board chairperson Elizabeth Crowe said. “We recognize the high degree of uncertainty this issue has created for our employees, parents and students,” she said. “Adoption of the (memorandum) will help provide labour stability and peace of mind for our Catholic partners.” The framework agreement, which Education Minister Laurel Broten calls a road map for the rest of the province, includes a salary freeze, loss of banked sick days and a reduction in sick days to 10 per year. Catholic teachers do not vote on the framework deal, but will spend the next few weeks “tweaking” non-monetary details, such as
school transfers, with the board, Ms Crowe said. Trustees decided to “agree to agree” to the deal “because there was just too much uncertainty”, she said. “We want everyone to start the year off knowing everything’s been resolved... When there’s no anxiety, then students can learn in the classroom.” The agreement prevents the automatic rollover of teacher contracts set to expire Aug. 31. According to a ministry statement, an automatic rollover would lead to salary increases of 5.5 per cent for many teachers and result in the accumulation of two million more teacher sick days provincewide that could be cashed out at retirement. During a news conference yesterday morning, Ms Broten urged other boards to follow the York trustees’ lead, which she said will enable the board to avoid an additional $3 million in costs and balance its budget. Meanwhile, Tory Leader Tim Hudak told reporters at Queen’s Park yesterday his party may support the Liberals’ controversial bill that would impose a two-year contract on Ontario’s publicly funded teachers. MPPs have been called back to work Aug. 27, two weeks early, to deal with the Putting Students First Act, which would also ban lockouts and strikes. The remaining holdout unions — Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario — plan a joint news conference in Toronto today to comment on legislation and the recall of the legislature.
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The Markham Horticultural Society holds its monthly meeting and Late Summer Flower Show Tuesday, Aug. 28 at the Markham Village Arena on Hwy. 7. Visitors are welcome to come at 8 p.m. and hear Christine Moore speak on “Forever Lavender”. Come early for refreshments. Free admission. Helping Homeless Pets is having a giant yard sale and kitten adoption event with all the proceeds going to help homeless pets. The sale is 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the adoption event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Adoption Resource Centre located at 2A Wignall Cres. in Markham (Hwy. 7 and Main Street). Visit helpinghomelesspets.com or call 647-932-7820 for more information.
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When Mariah Fujimagari played on a tyke boys’ hockey team, each player was given a chance to play net. When the Markham resident’s turn to go between the pipes arose, she seized the moment, recording a shutout in her club’s 2-0 win. She has never looked back. The 18-year-old recently earned a collegiate hockey scholarship to the University of Maine. Toiling last season with the Markham-Stouffville Stars AA midgets and the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations goldmedal winning Bill Crothers Secondary School Colts in which she did not allow a goal in four appearances during the provincial high school championships, Fujimagari enrols at the Orono, Maine, campus this fall. Her debut with the Black Bears’ women’s team won’t start until 2013. In the meantime, she will play net for the Maine Freeze Men’s under18 team for developmental purposes until joining the women’s varsity team. Her scholarship during her first season in 2013 is a partial one with the remain-
MARIAH FUJIMAGARI: Goalie earns Maine scholarship. ing years to be determined from a percentage perspective, she said. Fujimagari said she was first approached by University of Maine assistant coach Richard Reichenbach last summer at the Rush Elite Women’s Hockey Camp in St. Catharines. “He always conducted himself in a professional manner and made me feel comfortable during the recruiting process,” she said. Fujimagari made an official on-campus visit last October. “I knew immediately that Maine was the place for me. It felt like home. Where ocean meets land. Maine seems like the best place for developing my life.”
Fujimagari also felt she developed a good relationship with members of their hockey team and was impressed with on-campus resources at their disposal. “They have exceptional and outstanding coaching staff – amazing girls on the team.” Just as important, Fujimagari was impressed by the campus as a whole and support given to the school by the residents of Orono. “It’s a state-of-the-art campus surrounded by trees and the historic character and architecture was breathtaking,” she said. “ Intending to earn a bachelor of science degree in food science and nutrition, Fujimagari was quick to thank her father, who she described as her No. 1 fan, and her older brother, Josh, who once played for the Markham Waxers junior A club, for helping her succeed in hockey. “Steve Davis has been my goalie coach for nearly my whole goaltending career and the late Sylvia Clayton was also special because without them, I would have never been able to progress as a goaltender or person to the extent I have now,” she added.
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Carlie Guida scored all three for the Strikers. The club’s lone blemish during their tournament appearance was a 3-0 loss to Niagara. Finishing second in their pool, but advancing to the semifinal, the Strikers received markers from Guida and Misbha Syed to edge Brams United 2-1 and gain a berth in the final. With Shaelyn Leung handling goalkeeping, other players contributing to the club’s title included Madison Frechette, Bailey Archer, Effi Sidiropoulos, Lauren Graf, Michelle Sadaka, Montana Gemmell, Morgan Blades, Sarena Karpouzis and Elora Sinnott.
Forthcoming Marriages
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Grant & Mary Mooney are thrilled to announce the upcoming weddings of their daughters.
Jennifer to Damian Smektala on August 25th, 2012 &
Krista to Darren Speake
on September 22nd, 2012 Weddings to take place in Muskoka
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HE FOUND A FRIEND IN JESUS
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Strikers win challenge cup in Thornhill
GRACE ANGLICAN CHURCH 19 Parkway Ave., Markham
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If you ever visit Port Hope, Ontario, be sure to look for the monument in Memorial Park honouring Joseph Scriven, author of the beloved hymn, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” Scriven discovered this wonderful friendship in the midst of a personal tragedy. One day before his wedding day, his fiancee died. In order to forget his sorrow, at 25 years of age, in 1875 he moved from Dublin, Truth Tabernacle Pentecostal Church
Ireland to Port Hope. He was hired by a family in the community of Bewdley, north of Port Hope to tutor their children. In his 30’s he received a letter from his family in Ireland that his mother was gravely ill. Without sufficient funds to travel to see her before her death, he felt led to write a poem that he hoped would express his love for them and would encourage their trust in the Saviour in this time of trial.
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Somehow the poem reached the hymnbook publisher Ira D. Sankey. Charles Converse put it to music and it was included as the last song
in the book: “Gospel Hymns No. 1.” The reported result was that “the last hymn became the first in favour.” The first stanza of the message on Scriven’s heart was this: “What a friend we have in Jesus. All our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. Oh, what peace we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.” May the truth of this song and the friendship of Jesus bless you today. Paul Fawcett
We Invite You To Discover The Friendly Streets of Well Established Cornell. Cornell is one of Markham’s most awarded and unique neighbourhoods. And today, you’ll find a complete new selection of elegant Townhomes, 36' Homes with Attached or Detached Garage and gracious 40' Detached Homes. Cornell offers inviting streetscapes with colourful homes in a variety of pleasing styles, parks, playgrounds and walking/biking trails. There are also schools and retail shops right in the community.
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